1. Stefan Szczesny was born on 9 April 1951 and is a German painter, draughtsman, and sculptor.
18 Facts About Stefan Szczesny
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Stefan Szczesny is best known for co-founding the Neue Wilde movement in the early 1980s.
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Stefan Szczesny was born in Munich as the son of the philosopher and publisher Gerhard Szczesny and his wife Martha Meuffel, a theatre producer.
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Under the influence of his mentor Fruhtrunk Szczesny experimented in these years with abstract and minimalist art.
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The encounter there with the paintings of Delacroix caused Stefan Szczesny to rethink abstract and minimalist tenets and to return, eventually, to figuration.
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Nonetheless, it was as a figurative painter that Stefan Szczesny eventually gained wide public attention, in particular as the organiser of, and participant in, the 1981 exhibition Rundschau Deutschland.
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Stefan Szczesny was one of the protagonists of the Neue Wilde.
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Stefan Szczesny created a series of "Roman paintings" exploring the world of Greco-Roman myth.
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The first comprehensive retrospective of Stefan Szczesny's work followed in 1988, curated by Klaus Honneff at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn.
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In late 80s and early 90s, Stefan Szczesny's work was shown in many exhibitions.
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In 1994, Stefan Szczesny relocated to New York, setting up his studio at 12 Warren Street.
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Stefan Szczesny began better to understand art as a professional business.
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Stefan Szczesny has travelled there regularly since and has created a number of Mustique-inspired paintings.
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In 2005, Stefan Szczesny began producing his so-called "shadow sculptures", cut from black steel plates and depicting lush vegetation and sensual female figures as symbols of life.
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In 2008, Stefan Szczesny began work on a series of "golden paintings"; in these, Stefan Szczesny uses the powerful symbol that is gold and its associations with bounty and glory to celebrate life's beauty.
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In 2010, Stefan Szczesny opened his large new studio in Saint-Tropez.
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In 2011, Stefan Szczesny began to collaborate with the car company Jaguar, as the company's brand ambassador.
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In 2014, a retrospective of the work of Stefan Szczesny is hosted at the Palais des Papes in Avignon.